Man or Astro-man? and Mystery Science Theater 3000
They covered the Mystery Science Theater 3000 "love theme". It was released on Amazing Thrills! in 3-Dimension and later Destroy All Astromen! and was also performed live. MST3K creator Joel Hodgson joined them on stage to sing the theme at a show in 1996, and Joel's character on MST3K later claimed to have toured with Man or Astro-man? doing pyrotechnics for the band.
Man or Astro-man? recordings regularly feature audio samples taken from films riffed on MST3K (ex. The Leech Woman, It Conquered the World and Santa Claus) and the albums often make allusions to common themes and running jokes (ex. album credits for John Agar in Is It ... Man or Astroman? and Peter Graves and Richard Basehart in Destroy All Astromen!).
Man or Astro-man? guitarist Hayden Thais (Dexter X) and drummer Brian Teasley (Birdstuff) were also members of the "all-robot band" Servotron, which was named for MST3K robot character Tom Servo's namesake. A handbill for at least one concert have featured an image of the robot puppet.
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